Bottle holder for bottle-washing machines



March 16 1926. 1,577,092

A. ANDERSSON BOTTLE HOLDER FOR BOTTLE WASHING MACHINES Filed Feb. 13, 1925 Patented Ma. 16, 1926.

UNITED STATES AXEL ANnERssoN,

PATENT OFFICE,-

OF LUND, SWEDEN.

' BOTTLE HOLD ER FOR BOTTLE-WASHING MACHINES;

Application filed February for bottle-washing machines of the kind in which the bottles are disposed in inverted position on a horizontal table, revolving step by step.

In bottle-washing machinesof this kind the cleansing of the interior of the bottles is accomplished by fluids which are supplied, under pressure, from fluid conduits, provided with jet holes or nozzles which are arranged in such a manner that they, when the bottle carrying table is at a stand-still, are in line with themouth of the bottles.

In bottle holders of the kind hitherto known the'bottles are supported either at the bottle-neck or at the bottle body, which constructions have the disadvantage that bottles of different dimensions extend differently downwards, so that their mouths may contact with the nozzles on the fluid conduits below them, thereby causing-their destruction; or the bottles may on the other hand occupy a position so far away from the nozzles of the fluid conduit that the fluid stream becomes ineffective.

According to my invention the bottle holders are constructed so as to cause the bottle-mouths to directly rest upon the holder whereby a substantially uniform distance of the mouths of bottles of varying dimen sions from the nozzles of the fluid conduit is alwayssecured. These new bottle holders consist of a plurality of arms provided at their lower free ends with hook shaped pro jections, so that the bottle-mouths are left entirely free for the fluid streams directed upon them, excepting at the three or four points at which the bottles are supported.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the bottle holder according to the invention. Figure 2 shows the same in a top plan view. a

The bottle holder consists of a plurality (three or four) of substantially vertically arranged arms or guides 4, which at their 13, 1925. Serial No. 8,974.

middle portion are fixed to or integral with the edges of an aperture 12 arranged in the revolving table 2. These arms are at their lower end bent inwards, so that they form hook shaped members, the upper sides of the lower portions of which are adapted to form resting means for the mouth of a bottle, as indicated with dotted lines in Fig. 1. This arrangement offers the advantage compared with other constructions, for example closed and cushioned supporting rings, that the mouths of the bottles and also the necks of same may freely be subjected to the action of the cleansing fluid streams from underneath. p

In practice these bottle holders have been found to be particularly effective, because the bottles may on account of the play be-' tween the body of the bottle and the arms, see Fig. 1, be caused to oscillate or rotate by means of the fluid stream acting on the interior of the bottle, whereby the bottles will be cleaned in an ideal manner. These oscillating or revolving movements of the, bottle do not appreciably alter the position holder, so that the fluid stream is always permitted to freely issue into the interior of the bottle at the same time'thoroughly cleaning the whole inner and outer surface of the bottle-mouth.

:IVhat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination with ahorizontallydisposed table having an aperture therein, of a skeleton bottle holder permanently attached to the table and consisting in its entirety of a plurality of, substantially-vertical, stationary arms rigidly secured intermediate their ends to the edge faces of the aperture and extending through the latter above and belowthe table; saidarms having their lower ends turned inward to conjointly form a support whereon the edge of the mouth of a bottle in inverted position in the holder may directly rest.

2. The ,combination with a horizontallydisposed table having an aperture therein,

of a skeleton bottle holder permanently attached to the table and consisting in its entirety of a plurality of substantially-vertical, stationary arms rigidlyv secured intion in the holder may directly rest, the arms termediate their ends to the edge faces of being spaced from one another an extent the aperture and extending through the sufiicient to enable a rocking movement, of 10 latter above and below the table; said arms the bottle therein.

having their lower ends turned inward to In testimony whereof, I have signed my conjointly form a support Whereon the edge name to this specification. of the mouth of a bottle in inverted posi- AXEL ANDERSSON/ 

